Two Year Old Pictures.....

Here our Hailey's two year old pictures that we had done last week, when we went to get them done we thought this was going to be an easy process because usually when Hailey sees the lights flash, she is all smiles....well not this time. It didn't help that she didn't fall asleep until we pulled into the parking lot of Sears and then she was not really happy at first. While we were having them done, she was not wanting to smile or even sit where the lady told us to, so we were sure we had no good ones and that we just wasted our money....well we were suprised when she showed them to us, and we are pretty happy with them! We hope you guys enjoy looking at how much she has grown and also how much she still looks like her daddy!

Going to Church!

I couldn't help but post this picture of Hailey all dressed up for church, this was an outfit that her Aunt Carrie Andringa got her for Christmas. She looked so cute and even though we don't put pig tails in anymore we just love this picture. Hailey loves to go to church and play with all her friends. She gets mad at us now when we don't pray before dinner and you will find her sitting there in her highchair just waiting with her hands folded until we pray. It is so cute. She also loves to come up to us when we have our Bibles out and she will close them and proceed to pat them. This is something that her Sunday school class does and teaches them to pat the Bible. It was pretty cute at first, but when you are really trying to get some studying done, she makes it hard to do that. We even tried to give her a different book or something, but she is way too smart for that!

We are all doing well and just loving every minute we get to be together. We are so wonderfully blessed by God to have given us such a wonderful daughter, even though at times I want to pull my hair out, I am still very thankful that she is ours and that we have such a huge responisiblity to try to raise her up in a Christian home and allow her to learn about how much God loves her. What a wonderful calling in life to one day see your children grow up to serve the Lord.....I pray daily that the Lord will give us the wisdom and guidance to do this calling.

May God bless all of you and take care!

Love,
The Andersons<><

Our Little...Not So Little Girl!

Hailey when she was just born.....and here she is around Thanksgiving....I just wanted to go back and post a comparison picture of our little girl. It doesn't seem like she should be turning two in May, how time flys by so quickly. We were hoping that we would be able to post on here and tell all of you we were pregnant again, but we had a miscarriage. I was almost 9 weeks along and lost the baby right before Valentines Day, Though we are grieving and really having a hard time with this some days, I can't help but look back at our precious little girl and thank the Lord for what a wonderful blessing she is to us. Each day she makes me laugh, want to pull my hair out, but she loves me unconditionally and that is so precious. The Lord has a plan for our life and a plan for us as to when we will have another child, so we are leaving it all in His hands and allowing Him to work through us. He is an awesome God and we are so thankful for the little girl He has already given us. We love you all!

Hailey and Grady

Hailey, Grady sitting on Newt's (Crystal Allen) lap as she is reading them a book. This is such a huge milestone for Hailey as before she wouldn't even get close to Grady without crying. The kids also had such a great time playing in the toybox, they loved to both climb in it, but of course neither of them could get out of it. They were so funny playing together and we are so thankful that they can play nice and not have one or the other screaming every time they get close together. The adults also had a fun time getting caught up on each others news and just hanging out. The boys played Rock Band for a lot of the night, and the girls just talked and took care of the kids. What a wonderful night. We are so thankful for our friends Jonathon, and Newt, we love every chance we get to hang out and fellowship together. Hope you enjoyed the pictures!

Fun in the Snow and Big Girl Bed

Here are some pictures of Hailey and us enjoying the massive amounts of snow we had recently. She really liked it on Tuesday when it wasn't too deep. Wednesday it was pretty deep and hard to move in. We are so greatful for cousin Mia giving us a snow suit. I also put in some pictures of Hailey's big girl bed. It makes us excited and sad at the same time to have our girl growing up so fast.

We're Back

Sorry to all of you who were I am sure anxiously awaiting the latest update on the blog. With the computers crashing it has left us with no means for an update. I don't know how long this update will be as Hailey is "helping me". In fact she said she was going to write the rest of this.

Hello friends. I thought that I would share with you all some of my Christmas memories from this year. It all started with me helping Mommy wrap lots of presents. I was such a big help. I would grab the roll of paper and run the other direction so she could see all of it. I also thought that she needed some more practice at wrapping so I helped her unwrapping some of the gifts multiple times so she could perfect her skill. It was a blast. I got to see lots of special people over Jesus' Birthday including my Great Grandparents Browns and Goma and Gopa Danielson. I had a great time showing off for all of my friends and family.

I also got to see my Aunt Carrie and cousin Mia. We had so much fun. I thought Mia was very cool and also very funny. I really enjoyed playing hide and seek with her and then laughing until we both fell down. I know my Aunt Carrie loved to see me because she gave me lots of squeezes. I did really miss my Uncle Jason and Danny though.

That weekend I also got to play with all my cousins on the Danielson side which was so much fun. Me and all the other "little people" played a lot in the basement while our parents got to talk. My counsins Ian and Calvin and I even played some great piano music for eveyone. It was so much fun.

Since then, life has been good for us. I even have a new favorite activity, screaming... It is so fun and can serve multiple purposes. My mom and dad aren't quite sure that this is a good thing but I am working on them. I hope all of you are doing well and can't wait to hear from you all!!

Hailey

Death to the Computers

Okay, for all of you that keep up to date through out blog, we apologize. We have had a rough couple of months with the computer. We knew that we were going to have to get a new desk top in our computer room, but we were still trying to hold on to John's old computer that he had during college. Rest assured that it had multiple upgrades and a lot of new part on it. We were using out laptop all the time for most of our things any way and one night while John was working on his lesson for class, the tough old computer crashed for the last time. We were not even able to turn it on. So we had his cousin come over and help us try to save what we could, but there was no hope. So it took us a while to figure out what type of computer we were going to get and how much memory, and all the other important things you think about when buying a computer....we thought we had it all figured out, orderded and as soon as John hit the send button, the next day our laptop did the same thing and died completly. It was a rough night for us as we were panicked that all our pictures and eveything was on our laptop (yes we backed things up on our external hard drive) well we thought we did. So we are just now back up and running with two new computers and no pictures except for the ones we just took at Christmas. So we apologize for not putting any Halloween, or Thanksgiving posts, but we have had a rough time losing all our info. I promise to get some up soon and I hope that you are not having the time like we did with computers....God love em when they work right!